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We Asked ChatGPT to Review Robert Downey Jr.’s Broadway Debut in the AI Drama McNeal

A review of McNeal by David Gordon | September 30, 2024

But the emotional stakes of the play are often too distant for us to really cling to. While McNeal tackles up-to-the-minute themes on a grand scale, the result feels like a chatbot’s attempt to write a review of a theater production it never saw, all head, little heart. Regardless, Akhtar still makes important points about art being a uniquely human invention that connects the masses, and how computer-generated creations may be able to come close, but they could never replicate the same relationship.

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